![]() ![]() “Long before technological advances made self-moving devices possible, ideas about creating artificial life and robots were explored in ancient myths.” “Our ability to imagine artificial intelligence goes back to the ancient times,” said Mayor, who is also a 2018-19 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. These ancient myths are the subject of Mayor’s latest book, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology. Historians usually trace the idea of automata to the Middle Ages, when the first self-moving devices were invented, but the concept of artificial, lifelike creatures dates to the myths and legends from at least about 2,700 years ago, said Adrienne Mayor, a research scholar in the Department of Classics in the School of Humanities and Sciences. (Image credit: Wikimedia Commons / Forzaruvo94) ![]() Stanford’s Adrienne Mayor examined the myth of Talos and others in her latest research. A Greek vase painting, dating to about 450 B.C., depicts the death of Talos. ![]()
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